An excerpt from Kara Swisher's upcoming book, Burn Book: covering digital media in the '90s, Facebook and Google becoming information gatekeepers, and more
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Chrome's upcoming “Help Me Write” experimental AI feature could be a key step in making the web a place where most words are written by bots instead of people
Starting next month, Google will begin rolling on a new experimental feature in Chrome, the most popular browser on Earth … Bluesky: @harbourfordyce.bsky.social . X: @jwherrman , @...
A look at TikTok's e-commerce push, including subsidizing sales and shipping, and promoting sellers in user feeds, as ad sales weaken and social media stagnates
in this case, TikTok's ecommerce push and john's mechanical pencil sale (he didnt answer the diabetes q though....) https://nymag.com/... [image] LinkedIn: James Hirst : I remember...
A look at TikTok's dogged e-commerce push by subsidizing sales and promoting sellers in user feeds, as ad sales weaken and social media stagnates
It was supposed to be a test. Suddenly hundreds of people were watching. What's going on here? — Over the last four months …
OpenAI's deals with publishers are a hedge against a scenario in which scraping becomes harder, training material more expensive, and real-time data more scarce
This past week, Axel Springer, the German media conglomerate that owns Politico and Business Insider, signed a “multiyear licensing deal” …
Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month
Subscribing to the top US streaming services will cost $87 this autumn, compared with $73 a year ago. Meanwhile the average cable TV package costs $83 a month. — This isn't sust...
A look at bundles from smaller streaming services, telcos' potential role in bundling, and big streaming services' opposition to sharing the same user interface
A look at bundles from smaller streaming services, telcos' potential role in bundling, and big streaming services' opposition to sharing the same user interface
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Analysis: a basket of the top US streaming services will cost $87 per month this fall, vs. $73 a year ago; the average US cable TV package costs $83 per month
Top studios turn screws on customers with price rises that rival expensive cable TV bundles — The era of cheap streaming is ending … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to . Bluesky: @ep...
Microsoft limits Bing chats to five questions per session and 50 questions per day; after five questions, Bing will prompt users to start a new topic
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The depictions of various interactions with Bing's AI show that the chatbot is doing what it was trained to do, albeit more broadly than Microsoft would prefer
In his 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum observed …
Microsoft says Bing chats will now be capped at 50 questions per day and five per session; after five questions, Bing will prompt users to start a new topic
Microsoft says it's implementing some conversation limits to its Bing AI just days after the chatbot went off the rails multiple times for users.
Meta says the segment at Connect 2022 announcing the addition of legs to Horizon World avatars in 2023 “featured animations created from motion capture”
Parmy Olson of Bloomberg was not impressed with Meta's announcements at Connect 2022: James Troughton / TheGamer : Meta's Virtual Leg Update Was Actually Motion Capture Jonathan Va...
In a text exchange on May 8, Elon Musk suggested slowing down the Twitter deal ahead of a speech by Vladimir Putin to see “if we're heading into World War III”
or at least, a fear that he could blow up the world and make a big acquisition moot. @KevinTDugan reports https://nymag.com/... Gerrit De Vynck / @gerritd : but there would be so m...
Twitter tells Judge McCormick that Peiter Zatko never raised spam concerns until he filed his whistleblower complaint and “started parroting” Musk's allegations
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An in-depth look at Tiger Global, the secretive hedge fund and VC firm led by Chase Coleman, as its huge bets on booming tech stocks led to a $25B+ loss by June
Secretive hedge fund Tiger Global changed the rules on tech investing. Then it all went bad. Tweets: @acfou , @nymag , @jcoviedo6 , @walt373 , @churchillcap1 , @alderlaneeggs , @g...
South Korean show Squid Game, topping Netflix charts in 90 countries, vindicates Netflix's strategy of creating franchises using content from around the world
including the debate over the show's title, which wasn't decided in Hollywood: https://www.vulture.com/... https://twitter.com/... @zemthings : I love how shocked studios are every...
South Korean show Squid Game, topping Netflix charts in 90 countries, vindicates Netflix's strategy of creating franchises using content from around the world
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A look at the harsh reality of working for on-demand delivery apps in NYC, including fluctuating pay and relentless time pressure, and labor organizing efforts
New Yorkers need to push for real employment protections for food delivery workers, who are literally risking their lives to feed you. https://twitter.com/... @nymag : @joshdzieza ...
Behind the online battle between notable tech figures including a16z partners and Balaji Srinivasan, and the journalists who report, and tweet, on the industry
Late last fall, the New York Times was preparing a bombshell article about Coinbase, a financial exchange that had become … Tweets: @gaberivera , @damiencave , @jayhinman , @joab_j...